Franklin v. Brown

Miller, President:

On writ of habeas corpus petitioners seek discharge from imprisonment in the state penitentiary, where, by the judgment of the Circuit Court of McDowell County, they were committed for life on an indictment for robbery.

The indictment, made a part of the return of the warden, charges that petitioners “did, in and upon one William Creasy, feloniously make an assault, and him the said William Creasy did then and there feloniously put in bodily fear and danger of his life, and silver coin consisting of two fifty cent pieces of the value of fifty cents each, good and lawful…